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Originally Posted by Aby The Liberal
Sorta have to agree here but not totally. Although the Su 30MKI is built in India and is close to Su 35 in comparison, the core technology is Russian. And I wouldn't be surprised if the Su-30 MKI or MKM showed a better maueverability than Eurofighter as it did quite well against F/A 18s in the Cope India exercise with USA.
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Depends really on what you would call core technology. The airframe, engine and the radar are Russian. The avionics, RWR, EW suite, mission computers, targeting pods, jammers, health and usage monitoring systems, etc, are all either Indian, Israeli, French or South African (the HUMS). None more important than the other in my opinion. What makes the MKI unique is that mixture of Russian, Indian and Western technology.